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Monday, September 24, 2012

Contest: Win Tickets to Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf

Update: The contest is now closed. Thanks to everybody who entered. I really enjoyed reading all your entries. The winner was picked at random. Congratulations @SoloZach! If you didn't win, check back here on Monday for a ticket contest to another new Broadway show.

Edward Albee's Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf is back on Broadway starting on September 27. Tracy Letts, Tony and Pulitzer Prize winning playwright of August: Osage County, and Amy Morton, Tony nominated star of August: Osage County, play the dysfunctional couple in this Steppenwolf transfer. I've never seen a production of this play, so I'm looking forward to finally seeing it live. Plus, I'm digging the logo.

I am also excited to give away a pair of tickets. There are two ways to enter:
1) Answer this question in the comments: In the play, George and Martha invite a young couple over for drinks. Which couple, real or fictional, would you like to have drinks with?
2) Tweet about the contest or retweet one of my tweets about it.

You can enter each way once, for a total of two entries. You must be following on Twitter to win. A winner will be chosen at random from all the entries on Friday, September 28 at 5:30 p.m. Please include your e-mail address or Twitter handle in the comments so I have a way to contact you if you win. Good luck!

If you don't win, you can also get discount tickets for performances before October 22 and save 35%:

I would have LOVED to have drinks with Harvey Milk and Scott Smith! Either before or post-breakup... because before, they were sooo in love (and were starting their "fight" for equality) or post because that's when the majority of his political life happened.shannonduffy77@gmail.com

I love this show, so I would have to go with Elaine Stritch and Ben Gazzara right after the Rock Hudson-inspired break up. It would basically be like being inside the play. The bickering, the wit, the STORIES...I can't even.

Fictional: Kermit & Miss Piggy - Because they can both be very silly & funny but care about serious issues and I think conversation would flow well. As long as their muppetters were allowed to join us, too.

Drinks with Extreme Democrat (and former Clinton advisor) James Carville and his (equally extreme) Republican wife Mary Matalin (former Bush advisor). Their marriage is so unlikely, completely built on a complete set of not even close to similar sensibilities - they are unbelievably funny together. How they manage to be so happily married is a mystery - well, maybe it's that they are from the Big Easy - New Orleans. There oughta be a play, movie or sitcom on these two.twitter @redrosete

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I have a master's degree from the Goldring Arts Journalism program at Syracuse University. I love to write about theatre, music, musical theatre, and pop culture. The opinions expressed here are my own and do not represent any of the companies I work or write for.